Women Enslaved by Dubai Sex Trade by MARX77, journal
Women Enslaved by Dubai Sex Trade
Agony of Pakistani Women Enslaved by Dubai Sex Trade
By Khurram Shahzad | AFP – Mon, Jul 14, 2014
Zunera once dreamed of becoming a computer engineer. Instead, aged 16, she was tricked into prostitution in the UAE, beginning a four-year nightmare of cruelty, violence and rape.
Pakistan has long been an important source of cheap labour for the Gulf state, particularly its booming construction sector.
But campaigners and officials say hundreds of young Pakistani women are also trafficked every year to supply the thriving sex trade in the brothels and nightclubs of Dubai. Zunera and her sister Shaista were two of them.
More than a year